TSS Great Western (1933)

History
Name	1933–1966: TSS Great Western
Operator	1933–1948: Great Western Railway 1948–1966: British Railways
Port of registry
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number	998
Launched	21 November 1933
Out of service	1966
Fate	Scrapped 1967
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,600  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length	282.75 feet (86.18 m)
Beam	40.33 feet (12.29 m)
Draught	16.07 feet (4.90 m)
Installed power	306 hp
Speed	14 kts

TSS Great Western was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1933. ^[1]

History

She was built in 1933 to replace an earlier ship of the same name, which had operated from Fishguard, a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, to Rosslare Harbour in Wexford, Ireland, since 1902. She was launched on 21 November, 1933 by Lady Cadman, ^[2] wife of Sir John Cadman, a director of the Great Western Railway, and had an experimental type of coal firing with mechanical stokers and a forced draught system, intended to be more economical than oil. ^[3]

From April to August in 1944, she performed as a troop ship, but returned to service and continued until 1966 when the service was abandoned

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Lady Cadman" . Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 22 November 1933. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Firm's largest wages bill for three years" . Nottingham Evening Post. Nottingham. 22 November 1933. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.